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buyers agent: Is It Time For Realtors To Start Acting Like Lawyers? - 09/08/10 10:51 AM
Are You A Patsy For Your Buyers?
As real estate agent, there’s a chance you may have discovered that everyone wants a piece of you. Buyers in particular want your knowledge of the market place, your experience and advice, and allowed to run amok unchecked, they will bleed you dry without a second thought. So long as there’s no charge of course. Because nobody wants to pay for advice. Heck no. Advice should be free, right?
But what if advice is all you’re selling?
As my attorney once said to me when I asked him about his exorbitant fees, “What I’m … (2 comments)

buyers agent: Procuring Cause 101 - who gets this commission?! - 04/10/07 07:51 PM
"Procuring cause", as defined by the National Association of Realtors trade group, "is ... the interplay of factors which together demonstrate that the unbroken efforts of a specific broker were responsible for the buyer making the decision to consummate the sale on terms which the seller found acceptable. In other words, a broker who is the procuring cause of a sale is a 'sine qua non' of the sale -- the sale would not have occurred but for the broker's efforts."
Ok got it? Now here's your problem. Who is entitled to the commission in the following circumstances. It's a real story, currently … (16 comments)

 
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Marcus Burke, Ph.D, GRI, e-PRO, ACRE, REPM, CNE

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